Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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ALSO A COMMENT FROM CANADA ON THE STORY BELOW "HAVE WE GONE MAD....":It's baffling; what do democrats hope to gain from supporting the Mullahcracy? Are their motives ideological or financial (via side deals)?Up here in Canada, the pinko's and the commie's so quickly rush to play the apologist/justifier to mo-slimes that they often trip over each other. However, the motives of Canadian commie's is clear; they get in bed with anyone who's an enemy of the US. But I can't understand the US democrats?!?! What the f**k is the matter with them? (GM)

Joe Biden, vice-presidential pick by Obama has been best friends with the Mullahs and their minions for decades and specifically Houshang AmirAhmadi, whose parties and gatherings he has attended and has voted time and again against restrictions on Iran that favor America but not the clerics.
Reports from Iran indicate the Mullahs were throwing celebratory parties when Biden was chosen and the Iranian diaspora report he has been given the title of "honorary ayatollah" for his his long support of the clerics and his Dhimmitude.
In the same spirit and vein that the Congressional Democrats built in a $500 million slush fund for ACORN, a notorious left wing lobbying and activist organization in the bailout/rescue package bill, to fund - AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE - a less than ethical pro-Democrat organization, the latest pro-Iran and anti-America action by them is staggering in its idiocy.
READ ON:AIC is Granted an OFAC Lisence to Operate in Iran
Iranian Council is pleased to announce that the United States Government has authorized the Council to establish and operate an office in Iran, under a license issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
AIC is the only US- based NGO to receive such a permit in recent years.
Commenting on the historic License, Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi, AIC President, noted that “the American Iranian Council-Iran will use this great opening to more effectively advance its mission of promoting dialogue and understanding between the peoples and governments of Iran and the United States at a time of immense promises and perils for their relations.”
AIC’s presence in Iran will promote people-to-people exchange and educational programs as well as facilitate policy dialogue through roundtables, conferences and timely informative and analytical publications.
Using its "so-called American" office in Iran, AIC will also help make policies on both sides better understood and more transparent than is currently the case.
By establishing an office in Iran, AIC will be able to significantly build upon its accomplishments thus far and extensively aid the process of reconciliation by building an active pro-engagement constituency.
Promoting a diplomatic approach to resolving US-Iran disputes will eventually lead to the normalization of relations between the two great nations.
For more on Democrat links to Iran, Amir Ahmadi and AIC and related people and groups use the following links:OBAMA meets Iran president Ahmadi-Nejad in Los Angeles via proxies and makes a deal
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-meets-ahmadi-nejad.htmlHoushang AmirAhmadi and Trita Parsihttp://noiri.blogspot.com/2007/07/for-those-who-turn-to-trita-parsi-be.htmlIslamic Iran's lobby in the USAhttp://noiri.blogspot.com/2007/04/islamic-irans-lobby-in-usa.htmlHoushang AmirAhmadi enters race and runs for President of islamic iran
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2005/06/americans-running-for-president.htmlHoushang AmirAhmadi (far right front) offers an immensely expensive carpet to Madeleine Albright as a present to ingratiate himself and his groups with the Democrat leadership.

And to top it off an expensive Picture frame.

This totally pro-Mullah person is whom we want to represent American interests?

Funny how he and Biden reportedly have a strong point in common - Plagiarism.

Monday, September 29, 2008

McCain should be touting his S. 190 bill of 2005, an attempt to prevent this instability--which was blocked by the very Democrats now behaving badly.McCain should be backing Newt Gingrich's solutions one of which is suspending capital gains tax and corporate tax for a year or two. Another is changing the mark to market system FOR BANKS put in place by Democrats, which lubricated the slippery slope down which we are hurtling.McCain should be calling out Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick and Jim Johnson--Obama's advisors who paid themselves handsomely for these financial crimes.McCain should be naming and shaming Chris Countrywide Dodd and Hussein Buy-This-Senator Obama for ranking one-two in the Freddie's Fannie Bribery Sweepstakes.
McCain should be calling out Barney Frank and Maxine Waters for running interference for the criminals who caused this mess.
We need an intervention to wrench McCain from his defeat-bound track of earmarks and my-friends civility.
Put Sarah in there to divert a roaring Alaskan river to clean this Augean Stable.It should be obvious there is a bipartisan national groundswell of outrage at the very thought of rewarding the criminals who caused this and entrusting those very criminals with a trillion or two of our tax dollars.
Bush, Paulson, Pelosi, Reid--politics has made strange bedbugs-- Burn the bedding at the CRA Motel.

Unfortunately the bank advert below talks of small "things" but illustrates the Dems holding together to resist saving our country. Again and again and again!

Obama OfficesDifferent, Separate and Apart fromDemocrat Party Offices. Does Obama Campaign Not Trust the Democrats? Or is it the Clintons? Will Election 2008 be remembered as the first contest between Republicans and Obamacrats–or the first between theObamacrats and the Democrats?Senator Barack Obama is building a national organization separate and apart from the national Democrat Party apparatus–at least in any state where the outcome of the November election is at all in doubt.
In state after state, the Obama campaign, in a break with tradition, has opened up its own offices–which largely push Barack Obama, and only Obama–apart from the Democrat Party’s own offices in those very same communities.
Obama has, literally, hundreds of these offices dotting the USA.

In Ohio, seventy Obama Campaign for Change Regional Offices–all of them separate and apart from the Democrat Party. In Pennsylvania, sixty-three Campaign for Change offices.
The list goes on:

Virginia, over forty offices; Georgia, thirty-eight; North Carolina, thirty-six; Indiana, thirty-two; Colorado, thirty; Iowa, twenty-three; Minnesota, twelve; West Virginia, six.
In states where the outcome is already pretty much decided, Campaign for Change operates few offices: one in Texas and California, for example.
Does Obama Trust the Democrats? Do the Democrats Trust Obama?
The Campaign for Change officespush one product: Barack Obama. Alan Note: not Democratic party principles, not Democratic policies and not the aims of the average Democrat but rather the socialist/marxist far left ideology of Soros, with more and more indication appearing that he has provided a slush fund to create these "Obama only" offices.
In our weekend visit to Obama offices, we found that local and state Democrat candidates did have a presence at the Campaign for Change offices–but not much of one.
Almost all of the usual campaign giveaways were there: pencils, literature, stickers.They were all on a small table in the back of the room. Obama is a nationalist socialist/MARXIST fascist.Along the lines of Mussolini, For those Obama suporters too young to remember or have read about Mussolini na dhis Brown Sirts, look him up and see how closely his attitudes resemble Obama.He has very little in common with the Dem Party, which is now inoperative since the Denver Convention.If Obama wins this election, the Dem Party is DEAD. There will be no place for "Party Unity My Ass" PUMApac.org, the likes of Joe Leiberman, or even genuine communists like Senator Bernie Sanders.
As events unfold, more and more Americans are beginning to realize this fact. The MSM is helping this happen, by putting out the fascist KOOLAID to America.These fascists just made a run at our economic system, and BUSH called them on it, but the fact is that we need to make more political hay on that fact.
Acorn workers are indicted in 12 states for voter registration fraud,Acorn's Attorney of Record is someone called Barack Hussein Obama.Yet none of this is talked about in the MSM.Obama has a lot of power already, has stifled the media, is trying to stifle the NRA, trying to stifle free spech in Missouri, and in Michigan and Obama's campaign conduct is not yet an issue.

A tense standoff has developed in waters off Somalia over an Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo that was hijacked by pirates.Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill “within days” of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Some of them died.Andrew Mwangura, the director of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, told the Sunday Times: “We don’t know exactly how many, but the information that I am getting is that some of them had died. There is something very wrong about that ship.” Written by Nick Grace & Abdiweli Ali, Ph.D.A tense standoff is underway in northeastern Somalia between pirates, Somali authorities, and Iran over a suspicious merchant vessel and its mysterious cargo. Hijacked late last month in the Gulf of Aden, the MV Iran Deyanat remains moored offshore in Somali waters and inaccessible for inspection.Itsdeclared cargoconsists of minerals and industrial products, however, Somali and regional officials directly involved in the negotiations over the ship and who spoke to The Long War Journal are convinced that it was heading to Eritrea to deliver small arms and chemical weapons to Somalia's Islamist insurgents.It was business as usual when speedboats surrounded the MV Iran Deyanat on August 21. The 44468 dead weight tonnage bulk carrier was pushing towards the Suez and had just entered the Gulf of Aden - dangerous waters where instability, greed and no-questions-asked ransom payments have led to a recent surge in piracy. Steaming past the Horn of Africa, 82 nautical miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was a prize for the taking. It would bring hundreds of thousands of dollars - possibly millions - to the Somalia-based crime syndicate. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) - a state-owned company run by the Iranian military that was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 10, shortly after the ship's hijacking.According to the U.S. Government, the company regularly falsifies shipping documents in order to hide the identity of end users, uses generic terms to describe shipments to avoid the attention of shipping authorities, and employs the use of cover entities to circumvent United Nations sanctions to facilitate weapons proliferation for the Iranian Ministry of Defense.The MV Iran Deyanat set sail from Nanjing, China, at the end of July and, according to its manifest, planned to travel to Rotterdam, where it would unload 42,500 tons of iron ore and "industrial products" purchased by a German client. Its arrival in the Gulf of Aden, Somali officials tell The Long War Journal, was suspiciously early. According to a publicly available status report on the IRISL Web site, the ship reached the Gulf on August 20 and was scheduled to reach the Suez Canal on August 27 - a seven day journey. "Depending on the speed of the ship," Puntland Minister of Ports Ahmed Siad Nur said in a phone interview on Saturday, "it should take between 4 and 5 days to reach Suez."
Suspicion has also been cast on the ship's crew, half of which is almost entirely staffed by Iranians - a large percentage of Iranian nationals for a standard merchant vessel. Somali officials say that the ship has a crew of 29 men, including a Pakistani captain, an Iranian engineer, 13 other Iranians, 3 Indians, 2 Filipinos, and 10 Eastern Europeans, possibly Croatian.The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of pirates - 50 onboard and 50 onshore. Within days, pirates who had boarded the ship developed strange health complications, skin burns and loss of hair. Independent sources tell The Long War Journal that a number of pirates have also died. "Yes, some of them have died. I do not know exactly how many but the information that I am getting is that some of them have died," Andrew Mwangura, Director of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Program, said Friday when reached by phone in Mombasa.News about the illness and the toxic cargo quickly reached Garowe, seat of the government for the autonomous region of Puntland. Angered over the wave of piracy and suspicious about the Iranian ship, authorities dispatched a delegationled by Minister of Minerals and Oil Hassan Allore Osman to investigate the situation on September 4. Osman also confirmed to The Long War Journal that during the six days he negotiated with the pirates members of the syndicate had become sick and died. "That ship is unusual," he said. "It is not carrying a normal shipment."The delegation faced a tense situation in Eyl, Osman recounts. The syndicate had demanded a $9 million ransom for 10 ships that were in its possession and refused permission to inspect the Iranian vessel. At one point, he said, the pirates threatened to "blow up" the MV Iran Deyanat if authorities tried to inspect it with force. A committee of delegate members and Eyl city officials was formed to negotiate directly with the pirates in order to defuse the situation.Once in direct contact, the pirates told Osman that they had attempted to inspect the ship's seven cargo containers after they developed health complications but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did not have the "access codes" and could not open them. The delegation secured contact with the captain and the engineer by cell phone and demanded to know the nature of the cargo, however, Osman says that "they were saying different things to different people." Initially they said that the cargo contained "crude oil" but then claimed it contained "minerals.""The secrecy is not clear to us," Mwangura said about the cargo. "Our sources say it contains chemicals, dangerous chemicals."IRISL hasflatly deniedthe ship is carrying a "dangerous consignment" and has threatened legal action against Mwangura.The syndicate set the ship's ransom at $2 million and the Iranian government provided $200,000 to a local broker "to facilitate the exchange."

Iran refutesthat it agreed to the price and has paid any money to the pirates. Nevertheless, after sanctions were applied to IRISL on September 10, Osman says, the Iranians told the pirates that the deal was off. "They told the pirates that they could not come because of the presence of the U.S. Navy." The region is patrolled by the multinational Combined Taskforce 150, which includes ships from the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.ALSOThe US has offered USD 7m to the pirates, who hijacked an Iranian ship in the Gulf of Aden, to receive entry permission and search the vessel. The hijackers have yet to respond to the USD 7m offer, but a source close to the pirates told Press TV that the pirates are likely to accept the bribe and allow the Americans onboard the vessel. The US naval fleet off the Somali coast alleges that The Iran Diyanat was carrying 'uranium and chemical weapons'. Iran's shipping company, however, has declared that the Iranian bulk carrier hired by a German company had no weapons or uranium on board and was carrying 42,500 tons of minerals and industrial products. Ibrahim Mohammad-Nabi, Deputy CEO of Iran's shipping company also confirmed that no Russian or Syrian nationals were aboard the vessel, rejecting claims made by another Puntland minister that an international crew operates the ship. Pirates have stepped up attacks on merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden, as Somalia's current transitional government has failed to shackle the pirates in the key commercial shipping lane.ALAN NOTE: Since the crew had not suffered during the voyage, the pirates must have damaged the cargo containers in an effort to examine the contents, releasing the chemicals or radiation.

In 1999 Bill Clinton gave instructions for preferential home loans to be given to low income families without a downpayment. And started the slippery slope down which we have slid.Democrats like Dodd and Obama have been the #1 and #2 beneficiaries from the situation and their friends have made tens of millions, one made $90 million as head of one of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac groups in a short few years.

Democrats in Congress and the Senate have BLOCKED all efforts to regulate Fannie & Freddie.

Ignoring all FACTS, Obama and the Democrats try to blame President Bush for the Democrat obstructionist actions and lay the catastrophic national finances at the Busj administration's door instead of Clinton and themselves.

I am 42 years old,I love the outdoors,I hunt,I am a Republican reformer,I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,I have five children,I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor's office.Did you guess? No! No! Not Sarah Palin.I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900

Monday, September 22, 2008

House Democrats are bypassing renewal of the offshore oil drilling ban by including the entire Pelosi “drill nothing” energy bill in a draft of a Continuing Resolution. HUMAN EVENTS obtained a copy of the most recent House draft CR this morning.DEMOCRAT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, NANCY PELOSI'S CONTINUING RESOLUTION BILL PERMANENTLY BANS ALL OFFSHORE DRILLING!!SO OIL PRICES JUMPED UP$25 IN ONE HOUR!READ FULL STORY BY CLICKING ON THE TITLE/SUBJECT ABOVEWHO IS THE ENEMY HERE? SAUDI ARABIA? OPEC? OR THE DEMOCRATS,OUR ENEMY WITHIN!ADD MARXIST-ISLAMIST OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO THIS MIX ANDSAY GOODBYE TO AMERICA!WAKE UP PEOPLE! DEFEND YOURSELVES AGAINST CERTAIN DESTRUCTION, FOR YOUR OWN SURVIVAL DO NOT VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT.BOTH PARTIES HAVE THEIR FAULTS BUT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE CLEARLY SHOWN ALREADY THEY ARE IN FAVOR OF ACTIONS THAT HURT, DAMAGE AND POSSIBLY DESTROY AMERICA.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Obama claims lack of sleep for his inability to make a coherent speech! As if a president or commander-in-chief in a crisis can get enough sleep. Or has a teleprompter if he gets a call at 3 a.m. with what to say! We all have sleepless nights but don't have to make world level decisions and his stumbling and bumbliing, semi-coherent words show that if he is a bit tired and doesn't have a preset script he could be lost.Do you really think you and your family will be safe with "call me back when I'm ready for you" man who cannot function without enough sleep? Who has clearly never been a soldier or any part of the military?

The only kind of war he can wage is against women. Hillary and Sarah! And use his Media allies to destroy decent people. While he chats with his favorite Communist allies and islamic preverted murderers like Ahmadi-Nejad.

Sarah Palin attracted over 50,000 people at the Villages in Florida today. Twenty thousand tickets for inside the venue and about double that listening outside behind the fence.

DEMOCRATS ARE STOPPING USE OF BIGGEST OIL FIELD IN THE WORLD - IT'S IN THE USA!!I would guess that one reason is that certain people don't want us to be energy independent or for our economy to truly flourish.
The Democrat "No Domestic Energy Policy!"
No domestic drilling.
No new refineries.
No new nuke plants.
No new dams for hydro-electric.
No coal.
No shale.
Deplete the SPR (strategic Petroleum Reserves).
Let Iran get nukes.
Let Iraq fall to Iranian domination.
No Canadian tar sands oil.All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or complete economic collapse will be our only choices.You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.
The Democrats are leading us into a real war for oil.A war we won't have the energy to fight. A war we don't need to fight because we have our own resources.Obama, who insists he is against war, if elected, will head the Democrats from the White House, who are ensuring we HAVE TO have war. What hypocrisy.GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3021/Two pages in pdf format. (4.10.08)Later survey (four pages in pdf format):
Http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911 7/23/08The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only scientists and oilmen knew was coming, but man was it big.It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since '95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana ...Check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.' says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.
'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,' reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
It's a formation known as the Williston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, U.S.oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough ha s opened up the Bakken's massive reserves... and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!
That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight.
2. [And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO, people!]
U.S.Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006 Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction.They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
-8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
-18-times as much oil a s Iraq
-21-times as much oil as Kuwait
-22-times as much oil as Iran
-500-times as much oil as Yemen- and it's all right here in the Western United States.
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this!?Because the democrats, environmentalists and left wing republicans have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil.
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels. Untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.
Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to.
[Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you're thinking about it ... and hopefully P.O'd, do this:
3. Take 10 minutes and compose an e-mail; fax or good old-fashioned letter to all your friends and associates.
Alert them to the fact that democrats and 'liberal' republicans have been and will continue to obstruct all plans to make America independent of foreign oil. The only solution is to vote all democrats and Marxist oriented republicans out of office.
If you don't take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you want to complain about gas prices .. because by doing NOTHING, you've forfeited your right to complain.
Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if everyone of you sent this to everyone in your address book.Alan Note: Snopes labels this as partly true. The probable discrepancy is the $16 per barrel price as extracting shale oil would cost more -BUT not as much as the money we are paying to Middle East countries.If we begin diverting some of this expenditure into an investment - right away - into extracting this bountiful oil inside our borders and escalate the investment as this oil flows, we can not only solve part of our fiscal challenges but also fight terrorism funding from the Billions we now send to the Middle East for their oil.FOR A DETAILED LOOK AT THE BAKKEN FORMATIONCLICK HERE TO READ

Friday, September 19, 2008

'Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.’

Iran is just a heartbeat away from the A-bomb. Last Friday the Daily Telegraph reported Teheran has surreptitiously removed a sufficient amount of uranium from its nuclear production facility in Isfahan to produce six nuclear bombs. Given Iran's already acknowledged uranium enrichment capabilities, the Telegraph's report indicates that the Islamic Republic is now in the late stages of assembling nuclear bombs.
It would be a simple matter for Iran to assemble those bombs without anyone noticing. US spy satellites recently discovered what the US believes are covert nuclear facilities in Iran. The mullocracy has not disclosed these sites to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, which is charged with inspecting Iran's nuclear sites.
As to the IAEA, this week it presented its latest report on Teheran's nuclear program to its board members in Vienna. The IAEA's report claimed that Iran has taken steps to enable its Shihab-3 ballistic missiles to carry nuclear warheads. With their range of 1,300 kilometers, Shihab-3 missiles are capable of reaching Israel and other countries throughout the region.
In support of its swiftly progressing nuclear program, Iran has escalated both its conventional military and terroristic adventurism. It has also ratcheted up its diplomatic assault on the US. This week, Teheran conducted a countrywide air defense exercise. Gen. Khatim al-Anbiaa, the commander of Iran's Air Defense Corps, explained that the exercise was aimed at defending against both electronic jamming systems and actual bombing strikes.
Also this week, Yahya Rahim Safavi, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps and current senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for security affairs, announced that Iran has shifted responsibility for naval warfare on the Persian Gulf from its regular naval forces to its more fanatical Revolutionary Guards. The Iranian navy will now be deployed only in the Gulf of Oman and along the Caspian Sea.
The deployment of the Guards along the Persian Gulf means that the force will be responsible for naval operations in the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of global oil shipments travel. Issuing Iran's most explicit threat to US naval forces in the area and global oil shipments to date, Safavi declared, "The entire Strait of Hormuz is under the tight control of the Iranian security forces, which are ready to defend Iran against any threat."
As for terror, al-Qaida boss Ayman Zawahiri's recent tirade against the Islamic Republic notwithstanding, Iran has apparently intensified its cooperation with al-Qaida. Over the past two weeks, Israeli counterterror officials have issued explicit warnings to Israeli vacationers to immediately depart from Sinai. They have stated that terror cells from al-Qaida and Hamas are working with Iran's Hizbullah to abduct groups of Israeli vacationers to Gaza. Moreover, as Hamas and Teheran have openly acknowledged their "brotherly" ties, more and more reports have been published about al-Qaida's escalating presence in Gaza.
Beyond all this, both regionally and globally Iran is escalating its diplomatic and strategic offensive against the US. It has widened its diplomatic operations in the Western hemisphere from Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua to the Caribbean by opening diplomatic relations with Grenada and St. Vincent, and it is pursuing diplomatic ties with Jamaica.
Teheran has initiated its own pro-Russian diplomatic initiative to "stabilize" the Caucasus. This week Iran's Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki caught the US State Department by surprise when he arrived in Tblisi to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. That meeting was part of a regional tour that took Mouttaki to Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as Germany.
Finally, of course, there is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's annual trip to New York for the UN's General Assembly opening session next week. Aside from being honored by leaders of the supposedly pacifist and clearly anti-Semitic Quaker and Mennonite churches, Ahmadinejad will be feted by newly elected General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann from Nicaragua.
COUNTERING TEHERAN'S sprint to the nuclear finish line and its intensifying threats against Israel and the West are three Western initiatives to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
First, the US, France and Britain have stepped up their rhetoric calling for additional economic sanctions against Iran. During the General Assembly meeting in New York, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to meet her counterparts from the other permanent members of the Security Council and Germany to try to agree on such sanctions. But this will be an exercise in futility.
Russia has made clear that it will reject any further sanctions. Indeed it is intensifying its military and financial ties to Teheran. Moscow has pledged to have the Bushehr nuclear plant up and running by the end of the year. And Iran is already suspected of diverting plutonium from the plant to develop still more nuclear weapons.
Germany, too, has evinced no interest in curtailing its financial ties to Teheran. To the contrary, German trade with Iran expanded 12% in the last year, from $2.7 billion to $3b.
So the US will fail to pass additional sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council. And this is a shame. But even if a miracle occurred and Russia, China and Germany agreed to adopt and enforce stiff sanctions against Iran, those sanctions would come too late to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The uranium that the Iranians took from their Isfahan plant will be weapons grade and attached to Shihab-3 missiles or transferred to Hizbullah, al-Qaida or Hamas terrorists for use long before such hypothetical sanctions would even be noticed.
The second way that the West - and particularly the US and Israel - have sought to stymie Iran's nuclear ambitions is through sabotage. As Yediot Aharonot reporter Ronen Bergman documented in his book, The Secret War with Iran, over the past few years the Mossad and US intelligence agencies have had some success killing personnel involved in Iran's nuclear weapons program. They have also managed to sell faulty nuclear components to Teheran that have slowed down and sabotaged its operations. As the assassination of Iran's terror master Imad Mughniyah in Damascus in February demonstrated, Israel has the capacity to carry out sensitive covert operations deep inside enemy territory. And more successful covert operations could no doubt cause still more damage to Iran's nuclear program.
But it is all but impossible to see how any such operations can prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons in the short term. With that uranium from Isfahan hidden away in one of its covert facilities, with terror operatives deployed all over the globe and in charge of Lebanon and Gaza, and with the Shihab-3 missiles happily accepting nuclear warheads, it is apparent that no matter how bold, limited covert operations have not and will not prevent Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold.
Finally, there are the private initiatives to use international law, capital markets and political pressure to deter Teheran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to persuade states not to cultivate ties with Iran.
A year ago, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs began a push to indict Ahmadinejad as a war criminal for his breach of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. His calls for Israel's annihilation make him guilty of the explicit crime of inciting genocide. The JCPA's initiative has fomented similar calls by groups in Canada and Australia and, most recently, by tens of thousands of evangelical Christians.
The Anti-Defamation League and AIPAC are waging public campaigns against European oil and gas companies that are involved in developing Iran's oil and gas fields.
The Center for Security Policy in Washington spearheaded the initiative to divest US public employee pension funds from companies that do business with Iran and other state sponsors of terror.
Several major American Jewish organizations are organizing a massive protest outside UN headquarters that will take place during Ahmadinejad's address to the body next Tuesday. Other groups, like the Israel Project, conduct intensive briefings for the media in the US and Europe to educate reporters and editors about the Iranian nuclear program.
All of these private initiatives are vital for raising public awareness in the West about the lethality of the Iranian threat to Israel and to global security in general. They are also important for embarrassing governments - particularly Germany, Austria and other European governments with histories of anti-Semitic violence - that refuse to end their bilateral trade with Teheran. Beyond that, they serve the important goal of weakening the Iranian economy.
But again, none of these programs can do a thing against that uranium for six bombs that Iran removed from its plant in Isfahan. They can't stop those centrifuges in Natanz and in covert facilities throughout Iran from buzzing along. They can't destroy those Shihab-3 missiles. They can't kill the scientists assembling the bombs.
IN LIGHT of Iran's unrelenting and rapid progress toward the nuclear finish line, it is clear today that while positive in their own rights, none of the actions the West is taking will succeed in blocking its path to the atomic bomb.
For that matter, the one option short of war that might have put an end to the mullahs' race to the bomb three years ago - namely supporting the Iranian people in their wish to overthrow their regime - cannot be adopted fast enough to prevent the likes of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad from pushing the button now.
Today, there is only one way to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Israel must bomb Iran's nuclear installations. Such a strike will not end Iran's nuclear program. It will not overthrow the regime. It will not cripple Iran's economy. It will not end Iran's active support for international terrorist groups.
All an Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities will do is set its nuclear program back for a couple of years. Such a strike will buy Israel and the rest of the world time. And during that time, Iran will no doubt expand its diplomatic, terror and political offensives against Israel and the US. But if Israel and the US are wise, they can use the time as well.
If Israel and the US are wise, they will use the extra time to ratchet up international economic sanctions on Iran. They will use the time to conduct covert operations against nuclear and regime targets. They will use the time to increase international pressure on countries that do business with Iran and sell it arms. And they will use the time that an Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities will buy to support Iranian democracy movements and so weaken the regime and perhaps eventually topple it.
It is clear today that the Bush administration will not take action against Iran. This week five former secretaries of state said that the US should pursue diplomatic ties with Teheran regardless of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. There will be no will in Washington to act against Iran until after Iran has attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.
So it is up to Israel. Too bad we don't have a government in Jerusalem.Hat Tip Caroline Glick

Thursday, September 18, 2008

In a recent interview with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islam Online website, and reported by the BBC Middle East Monitoring Service, the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR), Executive Director Nihad Awad reflected on "interfaith dialogue," the Bush administration, the upcoming presidential election, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Asked about the prospect of a new U.S. president, and whether American Muslims regret support for George W. Bush in 2000, Awad's answer offers a disturbing window into his soul.
"We should not blame the Muslims for taking part in the political process, and we should not blame the United States alone for the 11 September 2001 attacks, but we should also blame the perpetrators." (Emphasis added)
How noble.
FULL STORY CLICK HERE

The progressive rise ofObama'nation' Fri, 12 Sep 2008By Luke Manzarpour,Press TV, Tehran, IranAlan Note: the article below, in praise of Obama, opens with a crticism of Bush and America, then gets to the wonders of the Obama 'nation' Presidency and how he will help the Islamic world.Then seems to launch an attack on him as still part of the Great Satan America,

Barack the Brave

America now seeks to reinvent itself to once again align public and world opinion with its ideological role of grand bestower of justice, humanitarian crusader and land of opportunity for all.

Step up Barack Obama: young(ish) and youth aware; black(ish); charming and affable; happily married with blandly perfect children; from humble beginnings - a true testament to the American Dream and just the ticket to "renew American leadership in the world."

Obama has successfully wooed progressive types with his message of "change", going beyond the 'lesser of two evils' mantle to be considered a genuinely positive candidate in his own right.

While acknowledging certain limitations, a left clutching for hope sees in him the ability to provide something of that for which more radical means have been fighting a losing battle.

Progressive (Marxist) opinion lauds his willingness to meet with presidents Ahmadinejad and Chavez, his distancing from the jingoism and militarism of George W. Bush and John McCain, even his novel ethnicity.
IRANIAN PRESS TV for full article CLICK HERE

Sunday, September 14, 2008

According to the French language video, Londonistan has created a new, more practical Burkha for Islamic women to wear to facilitate doctor visits.Specifically the optometrist, the ENT (ear, nose and throat), mammography, colonoscopy and the OBGYN.THE NEW BURKHA VIDEO click here

By Haaretz Service Tags: Iran, Mossad, Israel
Former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan hinted in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that Israel may abduct Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in order to bring him before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. "It could very well be that a leader such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suddenly finds himself before the International Criminal Court in The Hague," the Minister for Pensioners' Affairs told the German publication in an interview published Monday. In an interview surrounding Eitan's recent revelation that The Mossad agents who kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960, which he led, knowingly let the notorious death camp doctor Josef Mengele get away, the 81-year-old minister was asked whether the Mossad still hunts Nazi war criminals. In response, Eitan said "that era is over. But that's not to say that such operations are completely a thing of the past."
Asked what he meant by that, the former Mossad agent hinted at the possibility that Ahmadinejad could be abducted, as the Nazi war criminals had been, and placed before the international court. The interviewer asked Eitan whether he was serious, to which he answered "absolutely. Those who spread poison and want to eradicate another people have to expect such consequences." The Israeli responsible for the planning and capture of Nazi exterminator Eichman, retired ex-intel officer Etan, now says Israel should kidnap islamic iran President Ahmadi-Nejad and put him on trial in a public international court.Alan Note:Meanwhile former islamic iran president Bani-Sadr said on an Iranian language TV that the Mullah regime is arrogantly announcing that the choice of who becomes President of the USA rests in Tehran’s hands. And they choose Obama!!
I have talked to various Iranians, at various levels who confirm the enormous effort and expenditure of funds by the Mullahs to get/organize votes for Obama.They are using mosques, Imams, Persian language radio, TV and Press media (most of which have been corrupted and bought out by the Mullahs), foreign Mass Media to which they are contributing money, lobbying shills like Trita Parsi and Houshange Amir-Ahamdi, student bodies at universities, where they have inserted a myriad "permanent students" who never graduate and are there solely to implement the Mullah talking points to influence student opinion and thinking AND their paid supporters in the DEMOCRATIC party.They are gathering members of the Iranian diaspora, using supporter homes just like networking parties for beauty or kitchenware product sales and persuading them to "buy an Obama" paying with a vote for the Democrat candidate,

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Yesterday I was at my local Target buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Sheriff, the Wonder Dog and was in the checkout line when woman behind me asked if I had a dog.What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again.
(I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.)Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's ass and a car hit us both.I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Target won't let me shop there anymore.Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say.

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Ah!!!!! What an example -
Carl was a quiet man. He didn't talk much. He would always greet you with a big smile and a firm handshake.
Even after living in our neighborhood for over 50 years, no one could really say they knew him very well.
Before his retirement, he took the bus to work each morning. The lone sight of him walking down the street often worried us.
He had a slight limp from a bullet wound received in WWII.
Watching him, we worried that although he had survived WWII, he may not make it through our changing uptown neighborhood with its ever-increasing random violence, gangs, and drug activity.
When he saw the flyer at our local church asking for volunteers for caring for the gardens behind the minister's residence, he responded in his characteristically unassuming manner. Without fanfare, he just signed up.
He was well into his 87th year when the very thing we had always feared finally happened.
He was just finishing his watering for the day when three gang members approached him. Ignoring their attempt to intimidate him, he simply asked, "Would you like a drink from the hose?"
The tallest and toughest-looking of the three said, "Yeah, sure," with a malevolent little smile.
As Carl offered the hose to him, the other two grabbed Carl's arm, throwing him down. As the hose snaked crazily over the ground, dousing everything in its way, Carl's assailants stole his retirement watch and his wallet, and then fled.
Carl tried to get himself up, but he had been thrown down on his bad leg. He lay there trying to gather himself as the minister came running to help him.
Although the minister had witnessed the attack from his window, he couldn't get there fast enough to stop it.
"Carl, are you okay? Are you hurt?" the minister kept asking as he helped Carl to his feet.
Carl just passed a hand over his brow and sighed, shaking his head. "Just some punk kids. I hope they'll wise-up someday."
His wet clothes clung to his slight frame as he bent to pick up the hose. He adjusted the nozzle again and started to water.
Confused and a little concerned, the minister asked, "Carl, what are you doing?" "I've got to finish my watering. It's been very dry lately," came the calm reply.
Satisfying himself that Carl really was all right, the minister could only marvel. Carl was a man from a different time and place.
A few weeks later the three returned. Just as before their threat was unchallenged. Carl again offered them a drink from his hose.
This time they didn't rob him. They wrenched the hose from his hand and drenched him head to foot in the icy water.
When they had finished their humiliation of him, they sauntered off down the street, throwing catcalls and curses, falling over one another laughing at the hilarity of what they had just done.
Carl just watched them. Then he turned toward the warmth giving sun, picked up his hose, and went on with his watering.
The summer was quickly fading into fall Carl was doing some tilling when he was startled by the sudden approach of someone behind him. He stumbled and fell into some evergreen branches.
As he struggled to regain his footing, he turned to see the tall leader of his summer tormentors reaching down for him. He braced himself for the expected attack.
"Don't worry old man, I'm not gonna hurt you this time."
The young man spoke softly, still offering the tattooed and scarred hand to Carl. As he helped Carl get up, the man pulled a crumpled bag from his pocket and handed it to Carl.
"What's this?" Carl asked. "It's your stuff," the man explained. "It's your stuff back. Even the money in your wallet." "I don't understand," Carl said. "Why would you help me now?"
The man shifted his feet, seeming embarrassed and ill at ease. "I learned something from you," he said. "I ran with that gang and hurt people like you we picked you because you were old and we knew we could do it.
But every time we came and did something to you, instead of yelling and fighting back, you tried to give us a drink. You didn't hate us for hating you. You kept showing love against our hate."
He stopped for a moment. "I couldn't sleep after we stole your stuff, so here it is back."
He paused for another awkward moment, not knowing what more there was to say. "That bag's my way of saying thanks for straightening me out, I guess." And with that, he walked off down the street.
Carl looked down at the sack in his hands and gingerly opened it. He took out his retirement watch and put it back on his wrist. Opening his wallet, he checked for his wedding photo. He gazed for a moment at the young bride that still smiled back at him from all those years ago.
He died one cold day after Christmas that winter. Many people attended his funeral in spite of the weather.
In particular the minister noticed a tall young man that he didn't know sitting quietly in a distant corner of the church.
The minister spoke of Carl's garden as a lesson in life.
In a voice made thick with unshed tears, he said, "Do your best and make your garden as beautiful as you can. We will never forget Carl and his garden."
The following spring another flyer went up. It read: "Person needed to care for Carl's garden."
The flyer went unnoticed by the busy parishioners until one day when a knock was heard at the minister's office door.
Opening the door, the minister saw a pair of scarred and tattooed hands holding the flyer. "I believe this is my job, if you'll have me," the young man said.
The minister recognized him as the same young man who had returned the stolen watch and wallet to Carl.
He knew that Carl's kindness had turned this man's life around. As the minister handed him the keys to the garden shed, he said, "Yes, go take care of Carl's garden and honor him."
The man went to work and, over the next several years, he tended the flowers and vegetables just as Carl had done.
During that time, he went to college, got married, and became a prominent member of the community. But he never forgot his promise to Carl's memory and kept the garden as beautiful as he thought Carl would have kept it.
One day he approached the new minister and told him that he couldn't care for the garden any longer. He explained with a shy and happy smile, "My wife just had a baby boy last night, and she's bringing him home on Saturday."
"Well, congratulations!" said the minister, as he was handed the garden shed keys. "That's wonderful! What's the baby's name?"
"Carl," he replied.

BY THE WAY, ACCORDING TO THE IRANIAN DIASPORA, THE ISLAMIC IRANIAN REPUBLIC HAS AWARDED THE HONORARY TITLE OF AYATOLLAH TO VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENATOR JOE BIDEN, FOR TWO DECADES OF DILIGENT SERVICE TO THE MULLAHS.CLICK HERE FOR PAY DETAILS

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Muammar Ghaddafi video - Arabic with English sub-titles AND below the video IRAN'S REJOICING AT MOSLEM OBAMA possibly going to White House
Iran’s leadership has expressed “great pleasure” at the prospect of a Barack Obama victory in November, according to Menashe Amir, the Iranian-born head of Radio Israel’s Persian language service.
But Iranian President Ahmadinejad has said he doubts that the American establishment “will allow” Obama to win.
“One of the Iranian religious leaders said if Obama will enter the White House, then Islam will conquer the heart of the American nation,” Amir told http://www.isracast.com/. The Iranian leadership likes Obama “mainly because he is a Muslim,” according to Amir. His first name, Barack, comes from “al-baraq,” which is the name of the horse that Muslims believe Muhammad rode on his way to paradise.
His middle name Hussein is also a Muslim name, and he was “born in a Muslim family,” said Amir.

Saturday, September 06, 2008

IN HIS OWN WORDS Obama describes in this video, how he will dismantle our defences and make us MORE vulnerable to our enemies.Terrorists or the Russians, or internal versions and Communists, who are gearing up to take advanage of his becoming "Terrorist in Chief" and embedded mole for Iran and other anti-American organizations - both inside and outside the USA.Obama needs to also answer/respond to the following, or voters need not and WILL NOT vote for him in 60+ days:
*His Columbia Thesis paper (He says he can’t find it)*His Harvard College records (have been sealed)
*His Selective Service Registration (not releasing it at all)
*His actual medical records (NOT his personal MD giving a statement to the press saying Obama is fit)
•His Illinois State Senate records (He claims he did NOT keep records??? )
•His Illinois State Senate schedule (He says they are lost)
*His Law practice client list (not available)
*A Certified Copy of his original Birth certificate the elongated form that shows MD signature and official seal (a COLB will not suffice)
*Any and all Harvard Law Review articles that were published (Says he never wrote anything as the PRESIDENT of Harvard Law Review, but what about BEFORE)
*His University of Chicago scholarly articles (Claims he can’t locate any)
*His Record of baptism (Says he has no record of this event)
*List of names, addresses and people connected with him during his time in New York*His passport information regarding his Pakistan trip when he was 18 or 20 years of age
AND HIS TIES TO:
(Do A Google search if you do not recognize these very prominent/notorious names)
Khalid al-Mansour a.k.a. Don Warden
Tony Rezko
Bernadette Dohrn
William Ayers
Michael Phleger black pather party
Malik Zulu Shabazz
Frank Marshall Davis
Saul Alinsky
David Axelrod
Louis Farrakhan
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Mazen Asbahi
George Soros
Percy Sutton

Friday, September 05, 2008

An enquirer received the following email from a Philadelphia attorney who has filed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and Senator Obama questioning his qualification to be President.
He asked Phil if he contributed, to assure him none of the moneys collected would be used for political purposes.http://www.obamacrimes.com/REPLY:Hi Bill,
No, none of the proceeds will be used to support any party. The proceeds donated will strictly be used for this litigation. Legal litigation is extremely expensive, especially when you require Expert testimony, which I am anticipating.
In addition, I just received confirmation that the DNC and Senator Obama were in fact served today, 09/04/2008.
The DNC was served at noon and Senator Obama was served at 1:00 p.m. All Defendants have now been served so the case can proceed.
Thank you for your email. Please keep up the great job and continue spreading the word. Together we can make a difference.
Phil Philip J. Berg, Esquire - http://obamacrimes.com/Meanwhile:
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.
Barack Obama's campaign is flatly denying a story told by former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, who cast an ex-Black Panther turned Muslim businessman and lecturer as a key Obama mentor but whose story seems off in at least one key detail.
Sutton's story, told in what NY1 said was a March 25 interview, has been lighting up the conservative blogs for the last week.
Sutton, now in his late 80s and mostly off the public stage, told NY1's Dominic Carter that he was asked to write a letter of recommendation to Harvard Law School on Obama's behalf by a man named Khalid al-Mansour of Texas, "the principle adviser to one of the world's richest men" who was also "raising money for [Obama]."
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told Politico that "Obama did not know and does not know Khalid al-Mansour."
LaBolt said Obama doesn't have a relationship with Sutton and that "to our (selective?)knowledge, no such letter was written." Obama was in Chicago, not New York, when he applied to Harvard.(And the telephone had not yet been invented?)The person to whom Sutton was apparently referring, al-Mansour, is a former Black Panther and an adviser to Saudi royalty who has produced, as Amanda Carpenter noted, some YouTube clips that would light up cable television if he's actually been close to Obama.
He's also been quoted backing the Palestinian side in the Middle East conflict, though he has not been quoted supporting violence there.
NewsMax's Kenneth Timmerman reported yesterday that he spoke to al-Mansour, who wouldn't comment on Sutton's story.
"Any statement that I made would only further this activity which is not in the interest of Barack," al-Mansour is quoted as saying.(Avoiding the subject?You bet!)SAUDI BLACK PANTHER FOUNDER & OBAMAclick here

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

The largest newspaper in the Netherlands, De Telegraaf, reported this past weekend that its nation's intelligence agency has been working closely with the CIA to help prepare the U.S. in a planned air attack on Iran. The front-page story in De Telegraaf, published Friday and headlined 'Attack on Iran Imminent,' claimed that U.S. military strikes on Iran's nuclear and weapons facilities would happen in weeks. The paper indicated Holland's military intelligence service (Algemene Inlichtingen-en Veiligheidsdienst, or AIVD), has pulled back from its operations inside Iran helping the U.S. to identify targets. De Telegraaf reports that the decision has already been made by the U.S. to attack Iran using unmanned aircraft, hence the Netherlands' decision to remove its agents. Excerpts from De Telegraaf follow: 'Good sources have declared to the Telegraaf that the AIVD Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst has been operating in Iran for the last few years with the purpose of the infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry of the Iranian republic. 'The operations are said to have been 'very successful' but have recently been put to a halt because of American plans for an air attack. Information regarding the AIVD operation has been shared with the CIA in recent years, according to the sources. 'Iran is believed to be working towards an atomic bomb and refuses to comply to Western demands to stop enriching uranium. In June Israeli vice president Shaul Mofaz made the statement that an Israeli attack is inevitable if Iran continues its quest for atomic weapons.'

CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.

But it's not safe to live here.

About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.

Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.

As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers.

As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.

But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.

About Me

For many years involved with intelligence and security matters in Iran with significant access at top levels during the rule of the Shah, until early 1979. Currently an Iran SME (subject matter expert), analyst/commentator, and multi-linguist.